L Oaks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Oaks |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Oaks |
| SIGNATURE | OAKS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7038-2097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Framing an ethnic studies/feminist studies toolkit for STEM students: Centering a liberal arts democratized education
The following research is derived from a larger study funded by a grant in response to California State Legislature Assembly Bill AB 101 mandating a public high school Ethnic Studies graduation requirement. From 927 surveys administered in introductory Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies courses at a public Research 1 University in Winter 2021, we analyzed 524 responses by participants who identify as STEM majors. Our analysis evaluated the learn…
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World
In the United States, access to contraception and abortion care is limited by policy makers aligned with conservative religious positions, which are often specifically Catholic or Evangelical Christian. In this post-Roe political climate, activists, policy makers, voters, and everyday individuals are responding to the loss of legal authority over one’s body. This article analyzes fertility awareness methods, contraceptive practices also known as …
Opening the “Black Box”: Student-Generated Solutions to Improve Sexual Violence Response and Prevention Efforts for Undergraduates on College Campuses
Campus-based sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are prevalent issues that impact students detrimentally. Guided by community-based participatory research, this qualitative study assessed undergraduate students' perceptions of available campus SVSH resources, gaps in services, and recommendations for solutions for SVSH at three universities in California via interviews and focus groups. Approximately half of participants were unaware of …
Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses
Sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are pervasive across university campuses. SVSH research rarely focuses on graduate students, who occupy unique positions within university settings due to their multiple responsibilities (e.g., teaching, research, mentoring), including managing unequal power dynamics with mentors and advisors. As part of a larger qualitative study, we sought to better understand SVSH generally and, when applicable, exp…
Community-Based Participatory Research with Invisible, Geographically-Dispersed Communities: Partnering with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Communities on the California Central Coast
This article reports on the community-based participatory research (CBPR) process of a 3.5-year studydocumenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community members’ perceptions oflocal LGBTQ communities on the Central Coast of California. This three-phase study consisted of online andpaper-and-pen surveys to analyze community strengths, challenges, priorities, and feelings of connection;collaborative interpretation of survey…
Risk, culture, and health inequality: Shifting perceptions of danger and blame
Foreword: The Social Meanings of by Dorothy Nelkin Introduction and Overview Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of by Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology by Mark Nichter The Cultivation of Fear Autonomy, Danger and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an At Risk Pregnancy for a Group of Low Income Latinas in Texas by Linda Hunt and Katherine de Voogd The Risks of Testt…
Antiabortion positions and young women's life plans in contemporary Ireland
Abortion is part of the irish experience, it is part of what we are”
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection
The 1966 edition of medical textbook states that women can safely smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day. Yet today, women who smoke during pregnancy are among most villified figures in public health campaigns. Laury Oaks argues this shift is not due solely to medical findings indicating that cigarette smoking may harm foetus. Also responsible are a variety of social factors that converged more than a decade ago to construct demonized category of …
Reproductive Frontiers: Ethnographic Explorations of the Meanings of Reproductive Technologies
Smoke-Filled Wombs and Fragile Fetuses: The Social Politics of Fetal Representation
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan; The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Helen Hardacre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997(cloth and paper), xxii. 310pp. The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 (cloth and paper), xv. 358 pp
Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork
Fetal spirithood and fetal personhood
Abortion is part of the irish experience, it is part of what we are”
Antiabortion positions and young women's life plans in contemporary Ireland
Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses
Sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are pervasive across university campuses. SVSH research rarely focuses on graduate students, who occupy unique positions within university settings due to their multiple responsibilities (e.g., teaching, research, mentoring), including managing unequal power dynamics with mentors and advisors. As part of a larger qualitative study, we sought to better understand SVSH generally and, when applicable, exp…
Fetal spirithood and fetal personhood
Reproductive Frontiers: Ethnographic Explorations of the Meanings of Reproductive Technologies
Fetal spirithood and fetal personhood
Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork
Smoke-Filled Wombs and Fragile Fetuses: The Social Politics of Fetal Representation
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan; The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. Helen Hardacre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997(cloth and paper), xxii. 310pp. The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. Gail Kligman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 (cloth and paper), xv. 358 pp
Abortion is part of the irish experience, it is part of what we are”
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection
The 1966 edition of medical textbook states that women can safely smoke half a pack of cigarettes a day. Yet today, women who smoke during pregnancy are among most villified figures in public health campaigns. Laury Oaks argues this shift is not due solely to medical findings indicating that cigarette smoking may harm foetus. Also responsible are a variety of social factors that converged more than a decade ago to construct demonized category of …
Reproductive Frontiers: Ethnographic Explorations of the Meanings of Reproductive Technologies
Risk, culture, and health inequality: Shifting perceptions of danger and blame
Foreword: The Social Meanings of by Dorothy Nelkin Introduction and Overview Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of by Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology by Mark Nichter The Cultivation of Fear Autonomy, Danger and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an At Risk Pregnancy for a Group of Low Income Latinas in Texas by Linda Hunt and Katherine de Voogd The Risks of Testt…
Antiabortion positions and young women's life plans in contemporary Ireland
Community-Based Participatory Research with Invisible, Geographically-Dispersed Communities: Partnering with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Communities on the California Central Coast
This article reports on the community-based participatory research (CBPR) process of a 3.5-year studydocumenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community members’ perceptions oflocal LGBTQ communities on the Central Coast of California. This three-phase study consisted of online andpaper-and-pen surveys to analyze community strengths, challenges, priorities, and feelings of connection;collaborative interpretation of survey…
Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses
Sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are pervasive across university campuses. SVSH research rarely focuses on graduate students, who occupy unique positions within university settings due to their multiple responsibilities (e.g., teaching, research, mentoring), including managing unequal power dynamics with mentors and advisors. As part of a larger qualitative study, we sought to better understand SVSH generally and, when applicable, exp…
Opening the “Black Box”: Student-Generated Solutions to Improve Sexual Violence Response and Prevention Efforts for Undergraduates on College Campuses
Campus-based sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are prevalent issues that impact students detrimentally. Guided by community-based participatory research, this qualitative study assessed undergraduate students' perceptions of available campus SVSH resources, gaps in services, and recommendations for solutions for SVSH at three universities in California via interviews and focus groups. Approximately half of participants were unaware of …
Feminist Fertility Awareness? Sexual and Reproductive Knowledge in a Post-Roe World
In the United States, access to contraception and abortion care is limited by policy makers aligned with conservative religious positions, which are often specifically Catholic or Evangelical Christian. In this post-Roe political climate, activists, policy makers, voters, and everyday individuals are responding to the loss of legal authority over one’s body. This article analyzes fertility awareness methods, contraceptive practices also known as …
Framing an ethnic studies/feminist studies toolkit for STEM students: Centering a liberal arts democratized education
The following research is derived from a larger study funded by a grant in response to California State Legislature Assembly Bill AB 101 mandating a public high school Ethnic Studies graduation requirement. From 927 surveys administered in introductory Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies courses at a public Research 1 University in Winter 2021, we analyzed 524 responses by participants who identify as STEM majors. Our analysis evaluated the learn…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Abortion (4 works) · Politics (4 works)